Director of Sales Enablement

🏢 Starburst · 📍 Boston, MA 💰 $185,000 - $185,000 / yr
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About Starburst

Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by giving organizations secure, governed access to all their data, wherever it lives. Built for distributed data environments, Starburst helps enterprises power AI and analytics without the cost and complexity of traditional data consolidation. With open standards including Trino and Apache Iceberg, Starburst enables trusted access to complete enterprise context while helping organizations avoid vendor lock-in. Leading global enterprises trust Starburst to fuel AI, analytics, and enterprise intelligence. Learn more at starburst.ai.

About the Role

Starburst is hiring a Head of Sales Enablement to own how our sellers ramp, learn, and execute — and to make sure that knowledge shows up as measurable productivity, not just completed training. This is a leadership role at the intersection of enablement, systems, and operations: you will set the enablement strategy and content standard for the sales organization, and you will partner directly with BizApps to get the right guidance, playbooks, and prompts embedded into the tools reps use every day, and with Field Operations to target enablement investment at the productivity gaps the data actually shows.

You are the right fit if you have built enablement programs before and have gotten tired of them living in a content library that nobody opens mid-deal. We want someone who thinks of enablement as an operating system for seller behavior, delivered in the flow of work, and measured the same way the business measures everything else: ramp time, pipeline generation, conversion, and quota attainment.

As a Director of Sales Enablement at Starburst, you will:

  • Enablement strategy and roadmap: define the onboarding/ramp program, ongoing skill development, sales methodology, and certification path for all customer-facing roles.
  • Partnership with BizApps: work jointly on the sales tech stack (CRM, sales engagement, enablement platform) so playbooks, battlecards, and next-best-action guidance are surfaced inside seller workflows rather than in a separate portal.
  • Partnership with Field Operations: use territory, pipeline, and productivity data from Field Ops to prioritize what gets built and to whom it's targeted, rather than running enablement as a one-size-fits-all cale
🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Starburst Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Interviewers strictly evaluate distributed query optimization expertise, deep Trino/Presto knowledge, and the ability to solve massive cross-cloud data federation challenges.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Treating SQL engines as black boxes without understanding execution plan optimization.
  • 2. Lack of enterprise customer empathy regarding data security and governance.
  • 3. Theoretical knowledge lacking hands-on debugging of petabyte-scale queries.
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I optimize distributed SQL query engines to radically accelerate analytics across complex, petabyte-scale enterprise data meshes.

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